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Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border, evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere, which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

During the 15th century, Headcorn was a cloth-making centre which prospered with the arrival of Flemish weavers, and its single, long street has several fine buildings dating back to that time.

Its winding streets and lanes are lined with slate-roofed stone cottages, some colour-washed, their gardens stuffed tight with exotic plants and palms.

The pillar box is now further down the High Street. In the foreground are Nos 1 and 2 Debden Road. No 1 is divided by a drainpipe from 100 High Street.

With its steep, winding streets and pretty cottages, there is a definite hint of Devon or Cornwall about it.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street. We

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.

Standing in the High Street at Hoddesdon must be one of the last horse-drawn milk delivery floats in the district (centre right).

Forming a boundary with the original Augustinian priory site established by Henry I, the High Street follows the route of the Watling Street ancient trackway.

This Congregational chapel opened in 1839 as an offshoot from Friars Street chapel. The name Trinity was chosen to indicate the group's opposition to Unitarian non-Trinitarian doctrine.

By Victorian times it was a sleepy near-village with a medieval street plan, numerous medieval cellars and architecturally mostly 18th-and 19th-century, as in this view west along High Street.

Here we look south down North Bridge Street towards that junction with High Street.

This now lost view looks from Market Street towards Silver Street: the timber-framed building on the left has been replaced by a 1970s building.

Here we see the Parish Church as we look from the High Street through Middle Row, part of the 'old town' of Ashford.

Princess Street, to the left, was originally called Prince's Street, after Queen Victoria's sons.

In contrast to the bustle of East Street, the southern length of South Street was very much a secondary shopping area. There are fewer people and fewer cars.

All Saints' church stands like a watchtower over this street, which houses many small businesses.

Newgate Street is one of the features of the town -it marks the line of a section of the old Roman road of Dere Street.

This view looks along the High Street, with Hardwick Road to the left.

On the left of this photograph of the High Street is the boarded-up shop of E Wraight, cycle agent. The Wraight brothers were also builders, blacksmiths and undertakers.

This view is looking towards the High Street, and is greatly changed. All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.

Comparing this view of Friar Street to the similar one taken in 1891, shows that the three-gabled building next to the car has had a coat of render stripped away to expose its timbers, while the shop on

But we will certainly never see street life like this again. Looking at Car No 3 arriving at the Long Causeway Terminus, we can see the entrance to Narrow Street directly ahead.

Two views of this charming seaside village street, taken a decade apart, but in which little appears to have changed.